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Borderland Apocrypha
By Anthony Cody
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By Anthony Cody
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A most original and jaw-dropping approach to the often-violent history of the U.S.-Mexican border. Anthony Cody brings the genre of concrete poetry into the 21st century—and it’s about time. The layout and design for Cody’s poems allow us to surf the page as we would the internet. Hyperlinks here, however, bring us to very specific images and thereby an intense engagement of the written word, histories many of us have never been told.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the MexicanAmerican War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day. Borderland Apocrypha centers around the collective histories of these terrors, excavating the traumas born of turbulence at borderlands. In this debut collection, Anthony Cody responds to the destabilized...
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